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Asked: 2026-05-21T09:03:56+00:00

Does MongoDB support soundex or fuzzy matching? I want to spot dupes of basic

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Does MongoDB support soundex or fuzzy matching? I want to spot dupes of basic contact name and address fields. I’m using the official C# driver. Thanks

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  1. Editorial Team

    Mongodb doesn’t support soundex matching, but it has Full Text Search.

    Also,

    You can always just store the
    soundex-encoded string in a separate
    field in mongo and search against
    that. Soundex is a really trivial
    algorithm and should only take a handful of
    lines.

    — from mongodb-user

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